After releasing his wonderful music through various renowned labels such as Open Bar, Afro Rebel Music and Candi Bean Records, Simphiwe Nhlapho who is better known as ZuluMafia is about to launch his own label ZuluMafia Digital. The inaugural release "Give me a chance" is a marvelous soulful production oozing with his much-admired South African touch and features the vocal talents of Cooks who impresses with his heartfelt rendition of the lyrics. Besides ZuluMafia's own fabulous variations ranging from thrilling deep over truly soulful to laidback broken beat, there are magnificent remixes by Mxdope and Lamulka Arts both adding their distinctive soulful yet spell binding touch to the song. In other words, this is soulful house at its best.

Rejoice Records grace us with a phenomenal release which takes soulful house to a whole new level... Joey Silvero, under his Distant People disguise, joins forces with legendary house music diva Stephanie Cooke for "Keep moving", a production that has timeless written all over it and features Stephanie Cooke's incomparable soulful vocals and sublime keys over smooth yet spell binding rhythms. Andrew Hartley injects a serious dose of funk to make your body sweat, Jonny Montana blesses us with a precious organic jazz drenched rendition, and finally Danny Clark takes us back in time with his 90's inspired workout. It is next to impossible to choose a favorite as each of the interpretations is guaranteed to send shivers down your spine and make you yearn for more...

Just one week after the magnificent "Every day" by House of Soul featuring Rochelle Rice comes the next gem courtesy of Phuture Sole Recordings. Out on vinyl as we speak and with a digital release to follow in due time, we are blessed by the phenomenal "It's in you" which ooze with the unmistakable arrangement and production of Chris 'Cee Rule' Forman and vocals by Jon Pierce and legendary songstress Stephanie Cooke. This incredible sun drenched production features marvelous deeply felt vocals alongside heavenly synth melodies over smooth yet vibrant percussive rhythms, altogether creating an uplifting soulful feel guaranteed to send shivers down your spine and make you yearn for more. In other words: a timeless release by no means to be missed.

Roots Go Deep Music is a brand new label out of South Africa created and directed by Sibusiso Ncongwane and Siyabonga Ngwenya whose objective is to shed light on the real deep underground house of South Africa - the labels debut release "The Rough Materials - Volume One" which features productions by Fred Buddah (Sibusiso Ncongwane), Ofuren (Siyabonga Ngwenya) and Soul Arab (Siyabonga Dube) certainly proves their point. Each of the four included tracks will take you on a journey to deepest territory, with the raw deepness created by utterly infectious rhythms, luscious melodies and sparsely used cool vocals creating a mesmerizing feel you can't resist to dance to. An ingenious release not to be missed by any lover of pure underground house music. We can't wait to hear more from this label...

What a musical treat we have here courtesy of Shines Records...  The DJ Soul and Tinbota (Andrea Fontemaggi) produced "House music was born" is a tribute to the music we all love and admire so much. The fabulous original mixes use laidback yet infectious percussive rhythms as playground for thehaunting spoken word poetry by Dr Feelx (Felix Imevbore) and delectable keys and chords, just to be taken to the next level by label head Gene King whose groovey 'Beautiful People Mix' oozes with heavenly melodies. This is followed by Daniel Guetta who contributes gritty 80's inspired synth fueled remixes and Phat Frank who enters deepest territory on his moody slightly dark workout. Highly recommended.

Washington DC's House of Soul released their wonderful debut album "Let's move" last year (check it out on cdbaby), now Phuture Sole Records have licensed the gorgeous "Every day" featuring sweet deeply felt vocals by Rochelle Rice which they will release soon with interpretations by Adam Rios & Johnny JM who rework the song into a Shelter anthem on their smoothly thumpin' remix laced with grand keys and killer organ, Chris Forman & Andrew Hogan who go laidback on their incredible deep'n'soulful yet spell binding rendition oozing with luscious melodies, and last but not least Giovanni Ikome who serves a hypnotizing workout featuring dramatic strings and synth melodies over gritty rhythms.